The Wooster Papers

Cast

Bertie Wooster and Madeline Bassett

They deal with each other in Right Ho, Jeeves 1, 2, 6, 9, 10, 14, 15, 16, 18, 20, 21, 23; The Code of the Woosters 1, 2, 3, 4, 7, 9, 10; Joy in the Morning 2; The Mating Season 1, 4, 11, 12, 15, 16, 17, 18, 21, 24; Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves 1, 2, 4, 5, 6, 9, 12, 17, 18, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24; Much Obliged, Jeeves 1, 5, 7, 9, 14, 16; Aunts Aren't Gentlemen 7.

Scenes they share

  1. Bertie explains that Madeline, Angela's friend at Cannes, struck him dumb with her soulful talk of stars being God's daisy chain, which makes her just the girl for dreamy Gussie.Chapter 1, Cannes
  2. Dinner at Brinkley is a funereal affair, with Aunt Dahlia, Tuppy and Gussie all off their feed and Gussie looking fit for embalming.Chapter 9, Brinkley Court
  3. Bertie returns to the drawing-room, quails at the sight of the Bassett, but takes her out for a stroll after an exchange of ‘Lovely’s about Cannes.Chapters 9–10, Brinkley Court
  4. A tight Gussie heckles the headmaster, makes a rambling speech about a beautiful world, ridicules Uncle Tom and Bertie, and hands out prizes until he accuses G. G. Simmons of cheating and Bertie flees.Chapter 17, the Great Hall
  5. Back at supper, Aunt Dahlia calls Bertie Attila because Anatole is now leaving and Angela is engaged to Gussie, and Jeeves brings a note in which Madeline Bassett says she will marry Bertie.Chapters 20–21, the Brinkley dining-room
  6. The household gathers on the lawn with no rescues made, finds itself locked out, and Jeeves volunteers Bertie to cycle to Kingham Manor for the back-door key.Chapter 22, the garden at Brinkley
  7. Arriving back at Brinkley, Bertie is met by Madeline, who praises his chivalry and asks him to release her so she can marry Gussie, which he joyfully does.Chapter 23, the front door
  8. Strolling on the terrace, Bertie spots the silver collection, steps in and lifts the cow-creamer out of its unlocked case just as Spode appears with a shotgun and says 'Hands up!'Chapters 2–3, the collection-room
  9. Bertie telephones a telegram to Aunt Dahlia saying that under Sir Watkyn's suspicious eye the cow-creamer job is impossible.Chapter 3, the library
  10. Madeline thinks Bertie has come pining for her like Rudel, assures him the rift with Gussie is mended, and tells him Gussie has grown bold enough to tell Spode to boil his head.Chapter 3, the hall
  11. At a superb dinner Bertie can barely eat for watching Gussie and Madeline sit in frozen silence, their engagement plainly off.Chapter 6, the Totleigh dining-room
  12. Left with Sir Watkyn and Spode over the port, Bertie retreats to his room, where Spode bursts in looking for Gussie and leaves a message that he means to break his neck.Chapter 6, Bertie's room at Totleigh
  13. Madeline tells Bertie she will marry him now she has finished with Gussie; Bertie explains the notebook and nearly convinces her, but she finds nothing in the cow-creamer and decides he made it all up.Chapter 10, the Totleigh drawing-room
  14. Bertie hides in a bush at The Larches, waits out a flirting postman, a smoking housemaid, Madeline and her school friend's dog, then grabs Gussie's letter from the breakfast table and, cut off at the window, bolts across the hall into another room.Chapters 15–17, The Larches
  15. At tea Madeline tells Bertie she still loves Gussie and weeps over his hopeless love for her, and Spode walks in to find Bertie patting her head.Chapters 5–6, the Totleigh drawing-room
  16. Madeline, showing Bertie to his room, tells her horrified father that Bertie is staying at least a week, and Sir Watkyn totters off for a stiff drink.Chapter 6, the upstairs corridor
  17. At a sombre dinner Bertie admires Sir Watkyn's new black amber statuette, bought from Plank and worth a thousand pounds, offends him by calling it soapstone, and slips off to his room afterwards.Chapters 6–7, the Totleigh dining-room
  18. Madeline corners Bertie in the hall, furious that the vegetarian Gussie has been rude about Spode, and declares she will have nothing more to do with him if he ever eats meat.Chapter 12, the hall
  19. Gussie flees with Bertie to meet Emerald in the kitchen garden, where she flattens the pursuing Spode with a basin, and Madeline, finding Gussie over the body, declares she loathes him and it is the end as he defiantly eats a ham sandwich.Chapter 15, the kitchen garden
  20. Blocked from the window by Bartholomew, Bertie hides under the sofa and hears Spode declare his love to Madeline and denounce Bertie as a thief after the statuette, then go to fetch Sir Watkyn.Chapters 22–23, Totleigh Towers
  21. Spode, Sir Watkyn and Plank denounce Bertie as a thief, Madeline drops him and accepts Spode, and when Bertie sneezes behind the sofa Sir Watkyn sends for Constable Oates and promises him twenty-eight days.Chapter 23, Totleigh Towers
  22. Jeeves, buttling in place of the indisposed Seppings, brings Bertie a reviving whisky and soda and consoles him with Shakespeare on good names, before Aunt Dahlia bounds in.Chapters 5–7, the Brinkley drawing-room

Every dealing, in order

Right Ho, Jeeves

The Code of the Woosters

Joy in the Morning

The Mating Season

Stiff Upper Lip, Jeeves

Much Obliged, Jeeves

Aunts Aren't Gentlemen